Re: grub.conf contents being ignored on boot (redhat 8/9)

From: No Spam (dontbother100_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: 29 Mar 2004 07:27:22 -0800

rdgentry1@cablelynx.com (P Gentry) wrote in message

> > Unfortunately, I believe I have already done that. I have tried doing
> > the "Installing Grub Natively" (http://www.mcc.ac.uk/grub/grub_3.html)
> > several times, as such:
> >
> > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
> >
> > That gives me hd0,0 and hd1,0 (I assume because of the RAID
> > mirroring). ...
>
> Assume you mean you're running RAID level 1 -- transparent mirroring.
> Grub is indeed finding that file on both disks just as you would
> expect with mirroring/copying.

<snip>

A very excellent explanation. Thank you very much for taking the time
to explain the RAID thing. I don't think that only doing hd0,0 is
going to solve the problem, because I am pretty sure that I did that
first, and only started trying to do both of them as a last resort.
But, your post was very informative, and as soon as I get time today I
will go through step-by-step now that I have a better idea of how to
troubleshoot the issue. To answer one of your questions (and I am
guessing that this will elicit a groan from some), I am updating the
kernel via Redhat's up2date function. It always worked in the past...
 By the way, I used a WIndows boot disc because some page I read said
that that was the standard method of doing it. I also saw the info on
"dd" -- if it comes to that, I will use dd.

Thanks again,
James

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